Nationally Representative Rates of Incident Prescription Opioid Use Among United States Adults and Selected Subpopulations: Longitudinal Cohort Study From the National Health Interview Survey, 2019 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: Nationally representative rates of incident prescription opioid use in the United States adult population and selected subpopulations are unknown. Using the National Health Interview Survey (2019-2020) longitudinal cohort, a cohort with 1-year follow-up created using random cluster probability sampling of noninstitutionalized civilian U.S. adults, we estimated rates and predictors of incident opioid use. Of 21,161 baseline (2019) participants randomly chosen for follow-up, the final analytic sample included 10,415 who also participated in 2020. Exposure variables were selected per the socio-behavioral model of health care utilization: predisposing characteristics (sex, age, race, etc), enabling characteristics (socioeconomic status, insurance status), health status (pain, disability, comor

SUBMITTER: D'Souza RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11486554 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature